Comments for Gyaan Sutra

Comment on Slicehost : Setting up outgoing mail and Google Apps (postfix) by Collin

Collin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:56:23 +0000

Er, why would you reboot to finish installation?

sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart

Comment on The tipping point for Firefox and Ubuntu by nix

nix — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:03:03 +0000

Stumbled into your blog post and I find it quite interesting. Now I have a comment or two; sorry to hear that your Firefox and Ubuntu experience didn’t go well.

Currently I am using Firefox 3.0.15 on Jaunty and don’t see the memory issue. I have 20 tabs open and from top command I can see that I am using 120 of RES memory and for swap I see 254. Same thing can be viewed under Windows from the task manager and adding columns.

Realistically a statement like:

“And in case you haven’t heard it yet, Windows 7 take up less memory on it’s own that Firefox with 10 tabs!!”

is untrue. Windows 7 from MS requires:
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

http://windows.microsoft.com/systemrequirements

That’s for the system to boot up. On a couple other notes; in Firefox you can change how Firefox stores data and have it purge or not cache data; also disabling prefetching. Another aspect to take into account Ubuntu uses a kernel knob/tunable called swappiness which keep applications in memory for better response time rather than pushing it out into the hard drive.

PS: I haven’t made any changes to the way my system works for those numbers. It’s a stock install with minor network configurations to speed up page load and render time. O’yeah; I disable prefetch.

I enjoy the blog, keep up the good work.
Best regards,
Nix

Comment on If I wanted a job, I would want one at UTV Motion Pictures by Narendra.s.v

Narendra.s.v — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:35:07 +0000

That’s interesting! But i guess Screwvala haven’t raised there salaries and so they resigned

Comment on If I wanted a job, I would want one at UTV Motion Pictures by Brijesh

Brijesh — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:59:05 +0000

I think you should ask Screwvala to fill in their posts and you should take over as the head.

Even better would be to start off on your own and then acquire them laterz. I’ll co-ordinate the acquisition-talks if you want.

I must sleep.
I must wake.

Comment on BharatStudent.com : Spamming on Orkut? by Manjunath

Manjunath — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:03:05 +0000

I too had a same feeling and wrote post in my blog about it there are many such similar sites who pose a threat and spam all over the world wide web

http://www.ceveni.com/2008/04/origin-of-term-spam.html

Comment on If I wanted a job, I would want one at UTV Motion Pictures by admin

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:46:48 +0000

Ha. Me too

Comment on Adobe should support more platforms! by admin

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:44:55 +0000

Quite Right Amit. Chromium compiles on Linux but can’t be run on it.. Microsoft is just awesome in things like this!

Comment on If I wanted a job, I would want one at UTV Motion Pictures by Amit

Amit — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:42:12 +0000

I didn’ know Ronnie Screwvala was such a big shot! Would like to meet him someday!!

Comment on Adobe should support more platforms! by Amit

Amit — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:41:00 +0000

This is true about Google as well. Chrome still doesn’t run on Mac and Linux. Flash atleast had a decent version out for Linux and Mac was alawys there!

Comment on Meetup : Creating online powwows by admin

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:36:00 +0000

Hope our discussion helped.
And yes, the forum is a great idea! Will try it out.